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Those kind of men don't do anything by their religion unless it suits their own selfish purposes, he cut off her fingers to avoid identification or for his own sick pleasure. His goat is cooked though, there's no explaining not reporting her missing and the blood in the house without him being the culprit. He will get a rubbish sentence though, murderers in Victoria barely even make two decades in jail.

I agree ozazure. This man is little more than an animal (and that's an insult to animals!). Sentences for violent crimes against other people are generally too short. Not only in Victoria but nationally.

"What am I going to say, he has been remanded. Leave him in there. I hope he rots in there," the relative told reporters.'

1467878645899(2).jpgRelatives of Zeinab Taleb, wife of Bassam Raad, outside the Broadmeadows police station on Wednesday.
Photo: Jason South

'During the out-of-sessions hearing, Detective Senior Constable Miranda Stubbs said forensic officers found a "considerable amount of blood" inside the home, leading them to believe Mr Raad had killed his wife there.

1467878645899(3).jpgPolice carry evidence from the family home in Cohuna Street, Broadmeadows on Wednesday.
Photo: Jason South

He was remanded in custody to return to Melbourne Magistrates Court on November 10 via video link.'

Is it just me,but that photo of the two of them: she looks so sad & he's got his ****gish hands over her head with a thousand-yard stare. I might just be projecting. May she rest in peace, may the children find some happiness & peace later in life, & may he rot in prison.

Is it just me,but that photo of the two of them: she looks so sad & he's got his ****gish hands over her head with a thousand-yard stare. I might just be projecting. May she rest in peace, may the children find some happiness & peace later in life, & may he rot in prison.

I don't think it was a happy life for Zeinab or her children. It's tragic that it ended her life and traumatised her children. I agree, he deserves to rot in prison and never reach Paradise.

'A Melbourne man who slaughtered and mutilated his wife in front of their three young children has pleaded guilty to murder.

Police believe the 35-year-old Broadmeadows man may have killed his wife because she didn't want him to join the Islamic State group in Syria.

According to court documents, the children told police they had witnessed their father use a knife to "slaughter" their mother in the lounge room of their home in June last year.

One told detectives his mother's body "was nothing but blood".

The children told police their father wrapped the 27-year-old woman's body in electrical tape, plastic and a doona before putting it in the boot of the family car.

It is alleged he put the children in the car and drove to grassland next to the Dallas tennis courts, where he dumped the body, before taking his children to a bakery to buy pastries.

Police alleged the man had previously told his brother-in-law he had fought with his wife over his desire to go to Syria to join the Islamic State terrorist group, and had sliced her hand with a knife six months before her death.

During his committal hearing the court heard the man believed his second wife, under Islamic law, was an ASIO spy.

The man cannot be identified under a court order to protect the identity of the couple's children.

He pleaded guilty in the Victorian Supreme Court to one count of murder and will face a pre-sentencing hearing in November.'

'A Melbourne man who slaughtered and mutilated his wife in front of their three young children has pleaded guilty to murder.

Police believe the 35-year-old Broadmeadows man may have killed his wife because she didn't want him to join the Islamic State group in Syria.

According to court documents, the children told police they had witnessed their father use a knife to "slaughter" their mother in the lounge room of their home in June last year.

One told detectives his mother's body "was nothing but blood".

The children told police their father wrapped the 27-year-old woman's body in electrical tape, plastic and a doona before putting it in the boot of the family car.

It is alleged he put the children in the car and drove to grassland next to the Dallas tennis courts, where he dumped the body, before taking his children to a bakery to buy pastries.

Police alleged the man had previously told his brother-in-law he had fought with his wife over his desire to go to Syria to join the Islamic State terrorist group, and had sliced her hand with a knife six months before her death.

During his committal hearing the court heard the man believed his second wife, under Islamic law, was an ASIO spy.

The man cannot be identified under a court order to protect the identity of the couple's children.

He pleaded guilty in the Victorian Supreme Court to one count of murder and will face a pre-sentencing hearing in November.'

ISIS sympathiser's wife had her eye gouged out and her fingers cut off as she was murdered by her husband for 'objecting to him becoming a jihadist' - as he pleads guilty
By Australian Associated Press
11:15 AEDT 01 Dec 2017, updated 11:22 AEDT 01 Dec 2017

A 36-year-old Melbourne man pleaded guilty to the murder of his wife in 2016

The man, an Islamic State sympathiser, brutally murdered the 27-year-old woman

'Mummy didn't get up': Push to jail ISIS sympathiser who murdered his wife in front of their three children and gouged out her eyes after she 'didn't approve of his jihadist agenda'
By Australian Associated Press
21:00 AEDT 01 Dec 2017, updated 21:38 AEDT 01 Dec 2017

‘Prosecutor Sharn Coombes said the couple's children - aged two, four and six at the time - saw their father repeatedly attack their mother with a knife.

'The accused set upon a prolonged and vicious attack on his wife, murdering her in front of their three children,' she told the court.

'The two oldest children described their father having 'slaughtered' their mother in front of them.'

An autopsy revealed the 27-year-old woman died of blood loss, with multiple wounds to her face and genitals, a gouged-out right eye, and two amputated fingers.

Two of the children told authorities they saw their father flush their mother's eye down the toilet.

The man later took his three young children with him to dump the body and afterwards ate pastries at a bakery.

'He closed the boot, then he sat on the boot to see if mum got up,' the boy told authorities.

'Mummy didn't get up.'‘

‘The pre-sentence hearing will resume on Wednesday [6 December 2017].’

'Mummy didn't get up': Push to jail ISIS sympathiser who murdered his wife in front of their three children and gouged out her eyes after she 'didn't approve of his jihadist agenda'
By Australian Associated Press
21:00 AEDT 01 Dec 2017, updated 21:38 AEDT 01 Dec 2017

ĎProsecutor Sharn Coombes said the couple's children - aged two, four and six at the time - saw their father repeatedly attack their mother with a knife.

'The accused set upon a prolonged and vicious attack on his wife, murdering her in front of their three children,' she told the court.

'The two oldest children described their father having 'slaughtered' their mother in front of them.'

An autopsy revealed the 27-year-old woman died of blood loss, with multiple wounds to her face and genitals, a gouged-out right eye, and two amputated fingers.

Two of the children told authorities they saw their father flush their mother's eye down the toilet.

The man later took his three young children with him to dump the body and afterwards ate pastries at a bakery.

'He closed the boot, then he sat on the boot to see if mum got up,' the boy told authorities.

'Mummy didn't get up.'Ď

ĎThe pre-sentence hearing will resume on Wednesday [6 December 2017].í